Presenter: Ken Waters, PhD, Pepperdine University, Emeritus
Date | Time: Thursday, April 30, 6-7 pm EDT
Description: Join us for a lively webinar featuring the research behind the new book, Words That Shape Us: How America’s Most Influential Magazines Craft the Narrative of Christian Culture. In this webinar, we’ll explore the seismic shifts currently redefining American faith and politics. Waters’s book analyzes the reporting by four prominent Christian magazines of the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Presidential elections, and hot button issues like immigration, abortion, racism, and Christian nationalism. The heart of this webinar is dedicated to a question he raises at the end of the book: “What comes next?” President Trump’s declining approval ratings among evangelicals and the withering criticism of his actions by some of the media Waters examined are germane to his analysis and frame remarks about the future of the movement itself. Don’t miss this opportunity to look behind the headlines and understand the words—and the shifts—evangelical news media say are shaping our world.